arcboii92

9 ms·

1.
by arcboii92 14d ago
---- My poem about sacrificing Engineering Best Practices on the Altar of AI Efficiency. First, they made CI/CD pipelines to automate the builds and deployment - and I said nothing because I didn't want to watch the scripts run. I
2.
by arcboii92 1mo ago
Shit. Found this at 8:30am, happy to click a few times before starting work... Suddenly its 10am? Huh? Also, minor spoilers, but it looks like making a crazy OP cell form does nothing once you evolve. I had some crazy RNA/DNA numbers,
3.
by arcboii92 1mo ago
I've said "code was always the easy part" recently so I should probably explain where I'm coming from. I think the practice of software engineering includes that "understanding of the relationship between code, busi
4.
by arcboii92 3mo ago
My brain stores it away in a magic database that cannot be queried in any useful way. If I say say "brain, give me a list of learnings from projects you have worked on" - it returns an empty set. But if I'm reviewing someone&
5.
by arcboii92 4mo ago
LLMs moved the moments of despair to PR reviews for me. It used to be that you could check on a junior dev occassionally throughout the day to make sure they're on the right track. Now you step away for 2 hours and they're raising
6.
by arcboii92 2y ago
Just a random guy chiming in to say my favourite 1:1 was when Fallout 4 released and we spent the entire time talking about the game. We then made a pact that we'd save up our leave so we could take a week off when the next Elder Scrol
7.
by arcboii92 2y ago
Just wasted half an hour at work playing the Get Rich Quick game. I remember the old days of point and click games, not knowing what the next step was, and just aimlessly clicking every item on every screen trying to make something happen
8.
by arcboii92 3y ago
Pretty much all of the self service gas station terminals in New Zealand went down for the 29th
9.
by arcboii92 3y ago
Pretty interesting stuff. Although in New Zealand we had our first cyclone properly hit land this year and it absolutely obliterated whole communities and disrupted our biggest agricultural region - so I'm not sure if we'll be as
10.
by arcboii92 3y ago
I've noticed this. I've had a paid subscription since GPT4 dropped but I'll probably cancel this month. Anyone got suggestions for a replacement? Preferably something that is like ChatGPT4 was on release day.
11.
by arcboii92 7y ago
I resigned from my current role because the office culture is terrible, and I hate being around pretty much all the people outside of the IT team. I was offered 6 figures as a counter offer for the first time in my career, which I turned do
12.
by arcboii92 7y ago
As a kiwi it blows my mind how bad your broadband is over there. My cousin recently moved to some rural Aussie town and will be getting 25 megabit, tops. Here in NZ we're rolling out 4 gigabit connections nationwide over the next 6 mon
13.
by arcboii92 7y ago
One of my favourite series, Bojack Horseman, had an episode where you hear his internal monologue. It was scarily eye opening, because I've often found my inner monologue saying the exact same things, and I can't even remember how
14.
by arcboii92 7y ago
Bonus fun fact: kumara is a loan word taken from kumar, which was it's native name in South America.
15.
by arcboii92 7y ago
The keto generator needs a bit of work. It was suggesting waaaaay too many carbs. Throwing in things like oranges where bacon would be the better keto option
16.
by arcboii92 7y ago
Being born brown, I'm thankful for my white names that get me into interviews where I can prove I'm a good developer.
17.
by arcboii92 7y ago
The most viewed game at the time I post this comment: Leisure Suit Larry 6 A huge archive of playable games from a wonderful era, and everyone rushed for the 8 bit tiddies.
18.
by arcboii92 7y ago
Is there an opposite version of this, with links to companies that stick it to China? EDIT: Found my answer literally 2 seconds after posting this. Its in the same repo https://github.com/caffeine-overload/bandinchina&#
19.
by arcboii92 7y ago
I'm the same! I like to plan things, so if something doesn't allow me to fit it into my plan easily I will discard it as not an option. Unknown costs, talking to other people, negotiating; these things produce trace amounts of anx
20.
by arcboii92 7y ago
Sheesh, imagine being the sucker who was 401st wealthiest and paying tax like the rest of us schmucks.
21.
by arcboii92 7y ago
The only place I've worked where Agile was like this was, surprisingly, one of New Zealand's major banks. The buy-in for Agile started at the executive level, and they made a call that everything was Agile. Obviously, this would&#
22.
by arcboii92 7y ago
Makes sense. He founded a tech company with his brother, got super rich, reversed his balding, got super sexy, and now builds rockets and fancy cars.
23.
by arcboii92 7y ago
This must mean aliens are real, and the Storm Area 51 meme was started by the government. They can't tell the public that aliens exist because there is an ancient contract. But, if the public were to storm Area 51 and discover it for t
24.
by arcboii92 7y ago
Wow. They didn't put the LackRack in. Homelabs mustn't be photogenic enough. https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack
25.
by arcboii92 7y ago
What the hell I don't come on HN to cry. WHAT IS THIS?!
26.
by arcboii92 7y ago
Aside from: clearing cookies, having to reopen news articles you've already half read in incognito, or adding an additional '.' (like "nytimes.com./blah"); what are some of the other ways people are getting aro
27.
by arcboii92 7y ago
As a software engineer early enough in his career to change tack, how would I go about venturing into this space? Cybersecurity is something that has always interested me, but it seems like such a massive feat that I often find myself overw
28.
by arcboii92 7y ago
This looks really cool, but I must admit - when I saw the name I hoped it was a HoloLens AR gamification of tidying up my house that gives me points for each dish washed or item of clothing folded. But hey, data is cool too.
29.
by arcboii92 7y ago
Pro-tip for anyone that finds themselves in this situation when trying to steal another company's data - say you bought the shirt for 50c at a second hand store. That, or don't wear your company polo on an espionage mission.
30.
by arcboii92 7y ago
This is really interesting! I just tried visiting a random nytimes article, which was over my free quota (because everyone on HN seems to have subscriptions at every news website). I then changed the url to nytimes.com. AND IT LOADED! Wow.

More ›